Staging History from the Shoah to Palestine: Three Plays and Essays on WWII and Its Aftermath
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Images -- 1 Introduction -- Western Drama: From Social Concerns to Social Change -- Theatre in the University and Beyond -- 2 Staging the Shoah: The Persecution of Jews in France Under German Occupation -- Bearing Witness: Charlotte Delbo -- Armand Gatti and "Concentration Camp Culture" -- Liliane Atlan and the "Theatre of Cruelty" -- Children of Drancy: A Montage of Voices -- Children of Drancy -- Bibliography: Sources and Further Reading on the Shoah in France -- 3 Theatre of and About the German Occupation of France and the French Resistance -- Theatre as Resistance? The Question of Sartre -- Jeanne D'Arc in Occupied France: Claude Vermorel -- Turncoats and Angels: Henry de Montherlant and Gilles Segal -- Theatre About the Resistance: Jean-Claude Grumberg and Charlotte Delbo -- Art as Resistance: The Eagle and the Cactus -- The Eagle and the Cactus -- Bibliography: Sources and Further Reading on the German Occupation of France and the French Resistance, 1940-1944 -- 4 Theatre of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Israeli Theatre-The Early Years -- Israeli Theatre After the Six-Day War (1967) -- Israeli Theatre After the Yom Kippur War (1973) -- Israeli Theatre and the Lebanon War (1982-1985) -- Israeli Theatre and the First Intifada (1987-1991) -- Israeli Theatre in the New Millennium -- The "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" on the International Stage -- Kafka in Palestine -- Bibliography: Sources and Further Reading on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Afterword -- Index.
